Welcome to the November Pals Blog Hop, we are thankful you stopped by.  This month we are showcasing projects that show our thanks, including both thank you and Thanksgiving themed projects.

You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from 33. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space on the Pals Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all of the amazing projects.

Even though it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet, I’m in a Christmas mood. I’ve been listening to the Christmas music channel – Perry Como, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, et al are my favorites – and thinking about my gift list. So for this project I decided to combine the Thanks theme of the blog hop with the Christmas theme in my head.

We all send thank you notes for our Christmas gifts, right? At least, we should. We all know how much time, effort and expense can go into gift giving, and we’d all like to know the recipients appreciate our pains. So here’s a little something to let folks know just how much you appreciate their thoughtfulness and generosity.

Tap Tap Tap – I think I could come up for a use for this typewriter on almost every card I make. I love the versatility of it. And the fact that it’s so darned cute. Here I’m using it to show my thanks.

Pop! – I love me some Stampin’ Dimensionals! They add just that little something extra. I’ve used them here to raise the entire circle panel off the card.

Here’s a close up of the typewriter. I like the shininess of the silver embossing powder. I added a little more depth and shading with my Light Smoky Slate Blendabilities Marker. For the white paper, I snipped the area away with my Paper Snips – the most fantastic little detail scissors I’ve ever found – and adhered a piece of Whisper White card stock behind it. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to get the thank you stamp placement just right. Of course, if (unlike me) you think a few steps ahead, you can stamp the sentiment, then line it up when you adhere it to the back.

I feel I should explain that the typewriter shows up much better in person. I’m afraid it blends into the Smoky Slate background a bit too much in the photos.

Versatility – you could easily change the colors to use this thank you card any time of year.

I can’t wait to see what the other Pals have in store! The next stop is 2. Angie Valle-Peters at Paperluxuries on the Pals Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you next month.

1. Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
2. Angie Valle-Peters at Paperluxuries
3. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
4. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
5. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
6. Rae Harper-Burnet at WildWestPaperArts.com
7. Amy L. Lazzell at Just A Thought…Cards by Amy
8. Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
9. September Gray at septembergray.com
10. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
11. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
12. Amy Whelan at Amy’s Inklings
13. Amy Hoptay at Inking of You!
14. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
15. Martie Pollard at The Crafty Bandit
16. Kerry Willard Bray at Peonies and Paper Chains
17. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
18. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
19. Susan Lankford at Stamp and Create With Susan
20. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
21. Beth Beard at My little craft blog
22. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
23. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts By Patti
24. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
25. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
26. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
27. Debbie Crowley at expressivelydeb…
28. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
29. Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
30. Becky Volpp at Inkblossomwithbecky
31. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
32. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
33. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space

Here’s what I used to make this card:

Tap Tap Tap stamp set 134204 (typewriter)

Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set 127802 (thank you)

Lots of Thanks stamp set 129690 (doesn’t begin to say it all…)

Circles Collection Framelits 130911

Real Red card stock 102482

Garden Green card stock

Smoky Slate card stock 131202

Whisper White card stock 100730

Read Red ink pad 126949

Versamark ink pad 102283

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder 109131

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder 109132

Heat Tool 129053

Embossing Buddy 103083

Whisper White Baker’s Twine 124262

Paper Snips 103579

Sweet Stamping!